DAVdroid 1.4 Release Notes

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DAVdroid 1.4.0

DAVdroid 1.4.0 introduces better Android 7 support.

• Android 7 behavior of marking contacts DIRTY on every SMS/call (although no relevant contact data are changed¹) is workarounded by using hash codes. Now, contacts won’t be uploaded after every call/SMS anymore.
• Fixed display problem of sync intervals in DAVdroid account settings: previously, the Android calls were synchronous. Note that Android 7 will rewrite sync intervals of < 15 min to 15 min automatically. This is an Android “feature” and can’t be changed by DAVdroid.
• Upgrade to okhttp 3.6.0, which provides some HTTP/2 and other improvements.
• More verbose logging.

¹ We have talked to Google and this turned out to be unintended behavior. They have said that this behavior will be changed/fixed in Android 8 again.

Version 1.4.0.1

Android 7 workaround bugfix:

• use local version of contact before calculating hash code
• don’t stop upload sync if there are deleted contacts

Version 1.4.0.2

• improve Android 7 workaround behavior in combination with CATEGORIES/VCard4 contact groups (fixes this bug)
• retain Events.UID_2445 when preparing events for upload

Version 1.4.0.3

• don’t use UID_2445 column on Android <4.2 (fixes exception with Android <4.2)
• alarm ACTION: compare only value (fixes ignored alarm for Nextcloud popup reminders)

DAVdroid 1.4.1

• show notification in accounts activity when system-wide synchronization is disabled
• update ez-vcard, build system and translations